7 sentences with 'punished'
Example sentences and phrases with the word punished and other words derived from it.
• « The inspectors of the temperance societies punished anyone who violated the strict rules of these congregations by fining them money or horses of the best pedigree (or, worse still, by forbidding them to attend tournaments or to drink a drop of alcohol for the rest of the year). »
• « The key difference between this belief and the idea of divine wrath in other ancient religions was that Yahweh only punished those who deserved it. He was neither capricious and cruel like the Mesopotamian gods, for example, nor frivolous and quarrelsome like the Greek gods. »
• « In addition, Spartans in training were often forced to steal food (from their own slave farms); they were punished if caught, but the offence was being caught, not theft - the idea being that the future warrior had failed to live up to the required level of skill in stealth. »
• « An example of this was the Goths, settled at that time somewhere in present-day Romania, whom Constantine punished severely after they turned against his forces during his war of conquest that culminated in 312 AD. »
• « The bottom line is that, from the late 4th century AD onwards, it seemed "business as usual" for most of the political and military elites of the Roman Empire. The frontiers were full of barbarians, but they had always been full of barbarians. Rome traded with them, recruited them as soldiers and fought or punished them as Roman leaders saw fit. No one in Rome seemed to think that this state of affairs would ever change. »
• « Another suggestive aspect: the famous "curse of Tutankhamun", which arose after the death of Lord Carnavon, the promoter of the excavations, who died, it is said, punished by the pharaoh for desecrating the tomb. »